The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-15 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, FROM'. RICHMOND TO WASHINGTON. '(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Jan. 27. So far as my own experience goes it would appear that theme is no more difficulty in passing from Washin ?,ton to Richmond and Richmond to Wash ington than there is in proceeding from the latter place to Baltimore, or from Augusta to Charleston. Of course, I would not have your readers imagine that it is desirable for a stranger to follow the example of the able author of " Guy Livingstone," and to talk secession publicly for many weeks in Baltimore before he hazards the experiments of Passing through the lines to Richmond. With such antecedents he will probably insure failure when he makes his effort to cross the border ; but, as suming that he possesses ordinary discretion and confidence, there is nothing to prevent a man cross ing backward and forward when he pleases except considerable exposure on the Potomac river and possibly a long walk upon either bank. There is, in fact, abundant reason to think that the seats of the two rival Governments of this continent habitual_ly swarm with emissaries from the enemy. Such will probably always be the case when the belligerents speak the same language, and more so where their lines stretch over such an immensity of area. But it is felt in Richmond, and probably also in Washington, that the presence of spies is of wonderfully little importance. There is nothing that could injure the Confederate cause to be scented out in the streets of Richmond. for upon the whole, considering the irksomeness, the pressure, and the weariness engendered by the war, I do not believe that history can exhibit so harmonious and homogeneous a nation as the Southerners, Simi larly, from various reasons, and chiefly, as I believe, from their ignorance about the South, the war fever in the North has swept opposition before it, since General Lee's retreat from Pennsylvania and the fall of Vicksburg. It will take at least twelve months more of hope deferred before the North consent to drain the bitter cup so long and so resolutely held away from his lips by stanch old George 111. That this cup will have to be drained, if not within the next twelve months, at least within the next twelve years, is, in my judgment, as inexorable a fact as a mathemati cal demonstration, as much beyond Federal preven tion as the revolution of the planets. There is a strange shadowy sense of unreality attached to passing 16 months in and about Rich mond, and then waking up to find oneself in Wash ington. To describe such a transition would demand not only unrivalled descriptive and antithetical ex cellence, but also some such quaintness of conceit as has exhibited Rip Van Winkle starting from his long slumber in Sleepy Hollow. In Richmond the spectator has for months and months been familiar with war about his path and about his bed, and at all his meals and under every roof. War is breathed in at every breath, wafted upon every breeze, heard in every sound, visible at every step. For grace and elegance and lettered ease there is neither time nor superfluity of resource ; nor, it must be added, are they compatible with the sublime earnestness of temper exhibited by man and woman. Sentries at the head of every street substantiate the passer's identity and investigate his right to be absent from the army. As earliest dawn breaks, you are awak ened by the long monotonous chorus of thousands of negroes, engaged in completing the defensive works around Richmond, and going forth cheerfully to their labour, which has long ago assumed such proportions as to defy the assault of 200,000 men. This is no idle statement of my own, but taken from the lips of the oldest, ablest, and least boastful of Confederate offi cers, whose name will suggest itself to every reader. Cannon are constantly seen in the streets—either new 12-pounder Napoleons going up to the army from the Tredegar Works, or guns which have undergone repair, or field-pieces which are going North or South ; the well-known lean, lank, ragged " gray hack" troops, with the same lordly defiant air of in dividuality and self-assertion as ever,constantly troop through the city, with their old wild, discordant yells making day or night hideous. The familiar Southern tunes of "Dixie" or "The Mocking Bird," execrably interpreted by a few fifes, a cornet, and a drum, con trast marvellously with the rich swell of fine Ger man bands in Washington, which render to perfec tion the "Last Rose of Summer," or one of Men delssohn's superb marches, crashing among the dis tant echoes of Pennsylvania Avenue. And yet there is a heart, a verve, and a sauciness about the Southern " Dixie" and the mien of its interpreters, which are looked for in vain among the stolid German musi cians of IN ashington and the gaudy troops bedizened with gold lace who follow them. But other symptoms of war, with the exception of the uniforms in the streets, Washington has none to show. The redundancy of " greenbacks"—those evidences, according to Mr. Seward, of a mighty nation's exuberant prosperity—is very perceptible in the increased crowd of the streets and the hungry look of greed which every face wears. But perhaps there is no sadder sign of the times which have brought sudden wealth to all and moral thoughtful ness to none, than the übiquity and boldness of the frail sisterhood who throng every avenue and public resort, seeking the smiles of the contractors, pecu lators, and nouveaux riches, and blending in a scene which could alone be photographed in language by the pen of a Juvenal. Ou every side money flows, as though the Potomac were the Pactolus. The dome of the Capitol, which once promised to share the fate without rivalling the beauty of Cologne Cathedral, is finished, and surmounted by a Goddess of such Liberty as even Madame Roland never con ceived. The hotels are thronged to bursting ; Wil lards, in particular, is occupied by an excited, pike eyed seething crowd, such es vibrates in the coulisses of the Parisian Bourse. At night theatres, gambling houses, " Varieties," and worse dens of infamy, veiled under no pretence at disguise, vie with the attractions of the " inspired Maid of Philadelphia," Miss Anna Dickinson. Mr. Seward's optimism is accepted without thought or comment ; no sound of war save the occasional boom of cannon being tried at the Neve-yard (a sound soothing to Yankee vanity) ever flutters the senses ; Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Chase openly, and Mr. Seward secretly, are speculating much more as to their chances for the next Presidency than as to the strength of General Lee or the designs of President Davis. Proceed next to New York, and the recollections of Richmond, blur r ed by intercourse with -Washing ton, fad© into the hazy distance, and can be recalled i only by a vigorous effort of the understanding. But as he journe ys northwards from Washington the I passenger cannot but dreamily contrast the memory . of his recent sulfa of" Dixie" with gs upon the overt as ked railroads the speed, the comfort, and the roominess of the Northern ar. I shall not attempt to carry your readers into Broad times described, but as way—a thousand i ndescribable as Niagara— nor to enter upon attempt at detail. There is such matter for all feeling is this street sinks erushed. Luxury, ostentation, that the m i n d heedlessness, heedlessness—the richest furs, the gacdiest silks, th e brightest bonnets, the most glittering diamonds, 1, C '• operas, theatres, concerts, cafes artta shows of every hue—why should I seek to ,rorlong aree P the list ? At Delmonico's famous restaurant, or a the !liaison Doreo, Spaniards, Frenchmen,, Italians, Englishmen di scuss wines and viands to whi ch no thing superior can be exhibited at Philippe' s or at Vefour's, As for a thought of the war, of the 500,000 souls which it has hurled into eternity, from the North, or the 200,000 Confederates who have died grimly pro arts et focis—why speak or think of such a ghastly theme ? Good taste for bids its mention ; nevertheless, if ever among the upper ten thousand its name is breathed, it struck me that four times out of five the sym pathy was with the South and Jeff. Davis. Stately polieem: n in blue or gray un if orms patronise the ladies if hustled in crowded Broad way or take sly drinks with admiring friends. w a y is it that Democracy converts the hotel clerk, the steamboat or railway conductor, the policemen , an d suchlike into a ki n d o f demi god—a man only as good as his neighbour, but vastly greater and l o fti e r ? Occessionally, with the usual fanfares of ma gnificent bands, regiments "from our country's glorious battlefields" parade alon Broadway with battle flags tattered and g torn, and (as is insinuated) riddled into ehr , .-ds by the tornado of shot through which they nave passed. I have, as it happens, seen too many Confederate battle flags which have been through every en counter of the war, and which (as the Northern bullets are far more numerous than th': Southern) have been exposed to a fiercer fir-, to believe in this demonstration of Northern bloodthirstiness. But the sight never fails "to bring the house down," and elicit the rapturous cheer of Broadway, which believes in the truthfulness of the exhibition, and makes many a secret resolve to keep far away from the spot where such scenes are enacted. But all things the most astonishing and bewil dering to the stranger fresh from Richmond is the sons and daughters. I have hardly patience to dwell upon the evidences of my meaning. A slave who has ran away from Richmond, and gives out that he has escaped from President Davis, is ele vated into an authority, and mounts the rostrum through the columns of the public journals. " The Southern armies are melting away by desertion, and Lee and Longstreet can hardly keep the field." It will be as well to state once for all that in the spring, summer, and autumn months the balance of deserters is always in favour of the Confederates, but that in the depth of winter, while inaction and stagnation prevail, the Federals are, as it were, tethered by their teeth to their own standards. "North Carolina is on the eve of yielding to the blandishments of Gen. Butler, and, headed by Go vernor Vance, will be back in the Union by the 4th of next July." Am I dreaming, or did I hear a fort night ago from Governor Vance that he would ra ther fight for 20 years than consent to anything but full, final, and irrevocable dissolution of the Union ? " Vice-President Stephens, the ablest man in the South, is at the point of death." Daring 16 months in the Confederate States I have never seen and scarcely ever heard of Vice-President Stephens. The list of similar chimeras might be swelled to infinity. As it was in the beginning, so it is now, and so it will be to the end. Suppresszo yeri alter nate with suggestio falai : the Union must and shall be maintained, because every man in the Northern States so wills it, and will give his last dollar rather than abandon the contest ! It is useless to reply that the dollars which they are giving are " bogus ;" that this war will be won not by those who print fastest, but by those who shed their blood most freely, and face self-denial with most sublime indif ference. " Constantly prefer a state of want to a state of abundance," says one of the wisest writers of all time. Behold in the contrasted aspect of two sections the moral conveyed in this apothegm ! I could not but think, in the first instance, of my parting conversation, a few hours before, with President Davis ; of his calm weighty analysis of the comparative strength of the belligerents about to close in a fourth and deathlier grapple; of his quiet earnest confidence; his kindling eye, Were it not that I remember that the deified Wash ington was surrounded on earth by detractors and vilifiers—that on his right hand stood Charles Lee fomenting by anonymous addresses discord among the American troops, and on his left Jefferson lend ing his great powers to secret detamation of his chief—l should search for special attributes in the Southerners to account for the fact that, although almost unanimous against the Yankee, they lack wisdom or virtue enough to appreciate the man whom, of all others, Providence has accepted for his mighty task. But, in spite of their indignant re fusal to be gauged by the measure of other nations, history is for the Americans the same revolution of cycles and repetition of incidents as for every other people on earth. Secondly, as I looked down on Broadway, and mused upon its kaleidoscopic face, I coal(' not bat remember the reflections of one of the brightest intellects in Richmond, as he told me, when taking leave of him, in what garb I should find New York, and described the scene now before me with the in tuition of genius, and in words which it would be well if I could reproduce for your readers. He said, " What delights me above all is to hear of the wealth, the splendour, the lavish prodigality of New York. Tiffany never had such a demand for dia monds, Stewart can hardly sell a shawl if it is worth less than 1,500 dollars. Never were there such im ports of women's gear from Paris, of articles de luxe from London. For all this payment in gold is in dispensable ; the day of reckoning will come, though it may not be yet." It is impossible not to ask " When will that day come ?" I own that Ido not think the end is at hand yet. It is not necessary that I should waste your readers' time by pointing cut that a defensive war was never yet stopped by financial destitution, and that therefore the depreciation of the Southern currency is of insignificant moment. But, although in the course of the present year gold cannot but constantly be on the rise in New York, even although the North may gain considerable suc cesses, it will be long before the fabric of visionary wealth which they are worshipping will crumble into dust. Upon this subject no warnings from an Englishman will be for a moment endured. I will conclude, therefore, by quoting an extract from an American authority, who tells his countrymen, if they would but listen to him, that " Tolluntur in altum, " Ut lapsu graviore ruant." In 1855 Professor Bowen, who occupies the chair of Moral Philosophy at Harvard College, pub lished a work which deservedly met with high approbation throughout the Northern States. I would venture to invite to this work the attention of all those who wish to see able writing about piper money and its delusions. Professor Bowen points out that in 1780 the continental currency issued by the American Congress when struggling in the agonies of the Revolutionary War amounted to 200,000,000 dols. in circulation, and that 500 dole. and even 1,000 dols. in this currency was offered for one in silver, Ha adds, in substance, the following remarks:—" It must not be inferred, however, that this rapid depreciation of the currency will seem to impede traffic or paralyse industry. On the contrary —at least until the depreciation has become extreme, say 500 for I—commerce and labour will be galva nized into unnatural activity, and a deceitful glow of animation and success—like the flush of a fever —will appear to pervade the nation. Prices rise, of course, as rapidly as the currency falls ; property which was sold for 100 dols. today will command 500 dols. or 1,000 dols. to-morrow. At the same time money is superabundant, and those who were once too poor to buy can now easily obtain the means of purchase. The pressure of deb also lessened; obligations are cancelled by paying back what is actually but one half, one fourth, or a still smaller fraction of the real value which was due. Ease in getting rid of old debts only creates a thirst for contracting new ones. Commerce is thus stimu lated, while the basis on which it rests is every day becoming less secure. A reckless spirit of specula tion akin to gambling in its chat aster and results appears to have seized the greater part of the com munity. The circulation of continental money in America in 1779, as we are told by a writer of that day, was ' never more brisk and quick than when its exchange was 500 for I.' And M. Thiers, speaking of the depreciation of the French assignats in 1795, says that to the horrors of famine were added the scandals of reckless speculation and stock jobbing, the sale of merchandise which had no ex istence—as the pretended traffic was only betting on prices —and the diffusion of a taste for luxury, dis sipation, and excess which is the invariable con comitant of sudden mutations of fortune.' . . . Professor Bowen then explains the cause of this de preciation of the paper money, which he shows to be its excessiv e i ssue and the fact that i t i s irredeem able. Speakin g of a reversion from paper to specie contrast it currency, he says--" The wh theimmediate are in st r iki ng on consequences results already noticed of t h e first issue of gradual depreciation, The paperits gradual money and industry and com. Ile la tter seemed to animate merce, to reli eve th e pressure of debt, and to supply abundant funds for enterprises which must otherwise have been abandoned ; but the community back by a evils th an t h ose from ich the former seems to carry cruel revulsion to wors e ws the e xc it ement citolhlaapdsaePwPahriechatiYbeeilrescued ; it i s the state of sometimes foll o and delirium of a fever. It is now seen th at th e issue of paper money is really a desperate measure, that the relief which it promises is but tempo rar and the.t the prosperity which it causes is a ss J; fallecious." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1864. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, WEST YORKSHIRE. The report states that the expenditure on capital account has been £285,096, The net balance of revenue, after pay. ment of interest on debentures, &c., is £10,422. A dividend at the rate of £7 per cent. per annum will absorb £7,918, which, with 4 per cent; upon the asset stock, £532, will make £8,450, leaving a balance of £1,972, The reserve fund now amounts to £8,765. The main line and Ossett branch are reported by the engineer as in satisfactory condition, and the works on the Batley and Methley branches are ex pected to be completed during the summer. capital account durtng the past half-year amounts to £995,114, of which £496,011 was expended on the main lines, £132,732 for additional rolling stock, £25,000 sub scribed to the West London Extension, £263,200 to the North London Extension, £28,787 to the Buxton Extension, £9,918 to the Disley and Hayfield, £25,000 to the Cocker mouth and Penrith, and £2,570 for the improvement of the permanent way. The revenue account for the half-year ending 31st December shows that £2,677,408 had been re• ceived and £1,279,597 expended, including £40,261 parish rates and taxes, £40,310 passenger duty, £25,000. Parlia mentary and legal proceedings, £7,338 depreciation and insurance of steamboats, and £10(3,667 renewal of road, leaving a balance cf £1,397,811. To this is added £16,855 from the preceding half-year, £9,106 interest on cash balances and calls in arrear, £29,763 rents of land and buildings, and £69,308 estimated dividends from other companies-making together £1,522,874. From this is deducted £255,088 for interest on loans and debenture stock, £11,004 for chief rents and interest on land purchases, £2,000 Preston and li Wye lease, £24,900 Buckinghamshire lease, £2,750 Cannock mineral lease, £29,560 North Union dividend and interest, £87,451 Chester and Holyhead dividend and interest, £139,681 Lancaster and Carlisle dividend and interest, £4,473 Kendal and Windermere dividend and interest, £33,471 Shropshire Union Railway and Canal lease, £512 Buxton and Matlock lease, £l5O West London lease, £2,729 Leeds and Liverpool and Rochdale Canal lease, £14,637 Stour Valley lease, £23,590 Birkenhead lease, £6,000 Warrington and Garston lease, £2,597 Oldham and Guide-bridge lease, £BOB St. George's Harbour lease, £11,564 Shrewsbury and Hereford lease, £5,265 Merthyr and Abergavenny lease, £2,000 Cromford and High Peak lease, £4,626 Stockport, Disley, and Whaley-bridge agree ment, £2,375 Buxton Extension, £31,174 South Stafford shire agreement, £5,670 Shrewsbury and Welalapool agree ment, £7,138 Bedford and Cambridge agreement, £,OlO South Leicestershire, £2,661 Central Wales, £2,116 Hayd on square depot interest-total, £717,470, leaving a disposable balance of £305,103, out of which is deducted £784, 198 for the proposed dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, leaving a balance of £21,205. ............ ••••1% GREAT NORTHERN. The report of the directors of this company states that, up to the 31st of December, £12,729,323 have been ex pended on capital account, and £12,689,416 received, the expenditure being £39,907 iu excess of the receipts. The expenditure of capital during the half year was £305,630' but the balance of the premium realised by the sale of £115,000 irredeemable preference stock, has with other small sums been placed to the credit of this account, The net amount of expenditure is therefore £299,335. The net increase in the balance, as compared with the same half of 1862, is £6,084. The sum available will yield the follow. ing dividends :—On the original stock at the rate of £8 lbs. per cent. per annum ; giving for the half year £1 7s. 6d. to the original stock, £3 to the B stock, and £5 15s. to the A stock, leaving:a balance of £213. The dividend for the year 1863 will therefore be £6 10s. per cent. on the original stook, £6 per cent. on the B stock, and £7 per cent, on the A stock. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, LONDON REVIEW.—Lord Russell's Foreignsoffice " piece" has had a long run ; but there are sym toms that the audience is growing tired, and if the noble lord does not play a little better it runs a risk of being damned. Disguise the Unpalatable fact as we may,the English nation has twice within the last six months had the mortification to see its almost menacing remonstrances treated with cool con. tempt. This succession of good things leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth. Pill over-night in the Polish affairs is followed by a pill in the Danish business the next morning ; and all our desire to believe the treatment scientific does not prevent us from thinking it unpalatable. As far as Poland was concerned we are far from condemning the Govern ment for either adopting or remaining content with diplomatic action. The treaty which gave Poland to Russia, in spirit if not in letter, made the great Powers of Europe into a kind of silent. Protectorate. Lord Russell's fault, then, was not in meditating or in re monstrating, but in giving vent loudly to protestations that England would never take offence whatever the language held to her by Russia. One serious blunder graced the diplomatic negotia tion that otherwise would only have been inefficient. Lord Russell, in a moment of generous improvi dence, went down to the country, and on a country platform declared Russia's title to Poland under the treaty gone. When you do not mean to bite, it is a mistake to bark. Bat Lord Russell incau tiously went home and penned a despatch to St. Petersburgh repeating this exasperating assertion. Oa a semi-official threat of war from Russia—for it amounts to that—he withdrew it by a hasty tele graph. Lord Derby's Shakspearian simile here becomes not altogether inappropriate. Lord Rus sell and the month of March seem always to come in like lions, and always to go out like lambs. Having finished with Russia, Lord Russell's next achievement was his answer to the Em peror's proposal for a Congress. It is probable that the Ministry exercised a wholesome dis cretion in declining that barren invitation. But the Emperor of the French was a courteous and powerFel ally. All that Lord Russell was called upon to do was to lay aside the pedant, and to be for a moment a man of the world. Cold, glittering, and logical, his despatch in reply to the French Emperor's suggestion read in the ears of all Europe as a polemical tractate. This was not the way to smooth over an obviously awkward duty. In the House of Peers last week Lord Russell defended himself characteristically upon this charge. He extracted two civil expressions from his letter and gave them, ore rotundo, to his audience as evidence that he had answered the Emperor like a friend and not a disputant. A more absolute proof of the iciness of the epistle could hardly have been dis covered. The two chilling and frigid extracts sounded lake the bare civilities which, in deference to society, a man pays in a drawing-room to his deadly foe. They remind us of the metaphor applied by the great O'Connell to the late Sir Itobt. Peel's smile. They are for all the world like the silver plate upon a coffin. On the Danish question, Lord Russell has not been a happy or successful correspondent. The estimate put by Germany on the rigid asperity of his pen, was shown by the Saxon Minister's passionate reply to one of Lord Russell's letters. Nor have the Danes, it is said, more reason to be satisfied than M. von Beust. In obedience to England's earnest pressure, they have surrendered their diplomatic position, and as it seems to very little purpose. Foreign rumour — looking before and after, and perhaps not altogether unfamiliar with Sidney Smith's joke about Lord Russell's readiness to command the Channel fleet, even attributes to Lord Russell's advice the mili tary retreat of General Msza from the Dannewerke. This ludicrous piece of gossip betrays the amuse ment felt by foreigners at the policy of the Eng lish Foreign-office. We are really to some extent thin day the laughing-stock of the capitals of the Continet. As for the veiled threats addressed by the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Germany, we suppose they have come to nothing —at all events, they have been contemptuously neglected by Austria and Prussia, not to mention the smaller States. This time Lord Russell cannot be accused of perusing the plan he adopted with re spect to Russia. The Northern Cabinet was allowed to understand that we meant no blows, and it pos sibly availed itself of the considerate information. Vienna and Berlin were given no such promise, In disregarding England's summons to abstain from hostilities, they quietly took their chance of an Eng lish fleet in the Adriatic. This fleet, as they insult ingly anticipated, never came. An unfriendly critic might with some plausibility believe that the Ger man Powers had taken stock pretty fairly of the diplomatic thunder of the Foreign-office. The policy of much cry and little wool is positively fatal to peace in the long run. We shall be very much sur prised if Lord Russell is as popular in the City as a Foreign Minister as he used to be as a domestic politician. All these humiliations added up. The nation becomes daily more impatient, and at last, perhaps, surges into war for some worthless cause, because it is weary of giving advice gratis, Having steered out of war on great questions that we care about, at last we shall, out of sheer opirit i be driven to make war about a bagatelle. 'WEEKLY REGISTER.—In his speech the first night of the session, Lord Palmerston asked sarcastically, at least four times, whether his Government had not a policy—each question following upon some bold assertion that drew down ministerial cheers, respect ing the diplomacy of Downing-street with reference to the Dane-German quarrel. "We have," he ex claimed triumphantly, c. a policy—the policy of maintaining the peace and the integrity of the Danish monarchy, and we have to a great extent succeeded in it." And this was said while the Danes and the Germans were hotly engaged in mortal com bat, and while the kingdom of Denmark was in the act of dismemberment. The war, which we have all along anticipated, has broken out, and the Danish army, seeing no chance of holding their fortified position against the overwhelming masses of the enemy, have abandoned the Duchy of Schleswig, and retreated to the island of Alsen. Had they done so ten days ago many lives would have been spared, much irritation would have been avoided, and the chances of King Christian's re taining tFe Duchy of Schleswig would have been very much better than they are now. We are in a position to state confidently that when the Austrian troops were set in motion, there was every wish in the Government of Vienna to preserve Schleswig, at least, for the King of Denmark. How far that wish has been modified or rendered difficult of accomplishment by the events that have since oc curred, is another question, All we can say—and we say it with confidence—is, that if Denmark should lose the Duchies, Lords Palmerston and Russell and their newspapers will have done the mischief. They stung Germany into fury by their insolent scolding and menaces, and they encou raged the Danes to obstinacy and rashness by their pompous parade of British sympathy, and their pro mises of aid, which was not to come when wanted. This they did thinking that France would take part with them in intimidating Germany. But the German Courts, great and small, knew better, and Austria and Prussia wore assured their advance to the Schlei and across it would not cause a French army to advance to the Rhine. And the same good authority also made them quite easy with re gard to Sweden and Piedmont. This we stated a fortnight or three weeks ago, and we now repeat it, in the teeth of assertions of a somewhat opposite character, that have fallen from the First Minister and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. These ministers denounce Austria and Prussia for going to war after Denmark had promised to comply with all their demands, and after her Majesty's Government undertook to guarantee the fulfilment of that promise. In the first place, there was no such promise and no such undertaking. The King of Denmark pro mised to convoke the Rigsdag in six weeks, with a view to their sanctioning the revocation of the Con stitution of last November, which is a very different thing from promising absolutely to recall the Con stitution ; and the British Government promised to invite the Governments of France, Russia, and Sweden to join them in a Protocol requiring the Danish Government to fulfil the promises made to Germany by the late King of Denmark before the Treaty of 1852 was perfected, which is a very different order indeed from that of guaranteeing the revocation of the new Danish Constitution. But even if the promise and the guarantee were what they are erroneously stated to have been, they came too late. Such as they were, they were not submitted to the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin until the order had been given for the Austrian and Prussian armies to advance, and all the arrange ments for taking forcible possession of Schleswig were completed. If Lord Russell, instead of " med dling and muddling," had gone to work discreetly, and devoted to statesmanlike diplomacy the time he wasned in mischievous lecturing and hectoring, it is not at all improbable that war between Ger many and Denmark might have been prevented ; but he only became discreet and civil when he found that bullying would not do, and, in the ex. cited state of German feeling, it might have been more than the thrones of Austria and Prussia are worth to have then countermanded the order to advance. Sr ECTATOR.—Patriotism and valour, heroism and self-sacrifice, have all alike failed to stop the bul lets, and the military tyrannies of Germany are masters of the half of Schleswig. General de Meza, the Jew soldier in chief command of the Danish army, finding that the Prussians could cross the Sehlci, that the Dannewerke NS' as thereby turned, and if he remained his army would be forced either to accept battle against twofold num- bers or to capitulate, preferred to withdraw, and, sharply pursued by the enemy, retreated upon Flens burg, whence the major portion of the army crossed into the district of Schleswig, called from the arm of the sea which separates it from the mainland the Island of Aslen. The Danes fought in their retreat with despairing courage, defending hedge after hedge. The people of Flensburg defended their barricades till they had killed a thousand Germans ; and at Oversee, when utterly outmatched, a Danish regiment flung itself upon the Austrian batte ries, and, though almeet destroyed itself, saved the remainder of the army. It is all useless, for " the rain descends alike on the just and on the unjust," no moral superiority counterbalances bayonets, and England does not seem even to feel the grandeur of the effort the hope of her support has tempted brave men to make. The Germans, flushed with their victory, have, to prove their respect for the Treaty of 1852, already "suspended" the Danish Govern ment, and to show their devotionito justice and nationality have ordered that Danes as well as Ger mane shall use the German tongue, The people north of Flensburg are still ready to die for their country ; but the people south of that point are allowed to speak for both, and to proclaim Prince Frederick as Duke alike of the willing and the un willing population. All Danes within reach of the Hungarians, Croats, Slavons, I talians, and Austrians, who make up what Vienna calls a German army, are expelled, Germans who think freedom worth as much as nationality are compelled to follow them, and hundreds of quiet families guilty of loyalty to an English treaty are wandering northwards in this bitter weather, without home or shelter or goal, cursing, we fear, the sympathies which induced them to believe that England, even vo hen not bound down by a lawyer's contract, could still be relied on to help freemen against violent wrong. The Danes, it is believed, will still, with the persistence of their Scandinavian blood, maintain the contest, harassing the invaders from Alsen, and by sea, until events once more turn, but there is no real ground of hope; forty millions of people in earnest are not to be re sisted by less than two, however individually supe rior, and the Germans are in earnest. They are en joying the threefold luxury of seeing that when combined for evil they are strong, of hoping that one day they may be powerful also for good, and of insulting the power whose political freedom is a standing reproach to a people who desiring liberty and unity are still the meek subjects of 30 prince lings, and they will quaff the cup to the bottom. Wny not ? God is far off, and England afraid of Napoleon, and the world for the moment is theirs to do what they will—to destroy Denmark if they like, in order that Prussian recruits may become veterans, and that Hapsburg may not outstrip Hohenzollern in the race for the hegemony. What matters if a treaty is broken when the judges are afraid to enforce it, that every little nation in Europe is thrown open defenceless to the assaults of its neighbours, that a nation is dying as some queenly woman might die if assailed by wolves, that every honourable heart in Great Britain is beating slower for shame at the spectacle of triumphant wrong P Are not the victors Germans, and are they not the ruling race of earth, the only one froth which the world picks kings—competent for anything except freedom and fidelity ? It is useless, however, with Tories hungering for a surplus, and Liberals thirst ing to show the world that England means peace even when peace is humiliation, to write about treaties, and honour, and nationalities, and " abstract ideas" of that kind. The only argument which comes home in the present temper of the aristocratic mind is interest, and we ask them just to consider for a moment whether apathetic inde cision is in this matter their true interest ? Are they really prepared to allow two great Powers to tear a province from a little Power because a sec tion of the inhabitants of the province speak the same language as one-half of the two aggressive populations do ? Because, if they are, we want to know on what principle they intend to fight for the Channel Islands, or the Mauritius, or Gibraltar, or any one of the thirty dependencies of Great Britain in which English is not universally spoken. That Germany intends to keep the Duchies is, we hold, certain, and to keep them upon the ground of national consanguinity. These Powers have been driven to the war which qua war they did not de sire by the pressure of German feeling, which feel ing has been intensified by every military success, and will most certainly not permit them to sur render the long desired prize. The Courts have been from the first unable to resist the commands of the excited democracy of Germany, and nothing has occurred in the war to strengthen their power over their peoples' passions. If they yield to them they are safe, and except their own safety what have they to consult ? There is the Treaty of 1852, but the Hohenzollerns have just violated a contract of at least equal validity. M. Bismark writes openly that a quarrel with Smith dissolves all contracts with Jones, and the Hapsburgs have broken every engagement they everi made, unless, indeed, it bound them to make priests a little stronger. There is France, but Germany, united, thinks herself a match for France, sings in her spasm of energy songs about wringing " Elsass " from the stranger, and doubtless were France only as weak as Denmark would try to exe cute her threat. There is England, but Germany g gusto that Earl Russell's repet;:q with sneerin g -;nd ' • that England fights only when threats are - -rilled, and that national dig leer interests are hill,- •- 1 2 red an interest. The nity is not in England confer , end they will, if two Powers can break the Tr eat y , and w_ith only it is clear that breaking it will p a y; provinces to acquire, a dem ocrac y to conciliate, a weak foe to outrage, and only England to insult, who can doubt that the profit is secure ? There will be, of course, negotiations, for German professors love to prove rights on paper; there will probably be half-a-dozen subterfuges, for a plain appeal to the sabre might bring a flash into England's sleepy eyes; there will, doubtless, be a popular vote, for, as Jules Favre said, modern creeds require us to search the victim's entrails for favourable auguries; but when all these things are done Denmark will have lost Schleswig, and a nationality older than our own will be left without resource save that one which seems pleasant only to Buddhists, absorption in something greater than oneself. Is it our interest to allow this example of successful violence to tempt France to seize the Rhine, and Russia the frontier of the Balkan P Resisting either of those two ag gressions would cost us rather more than sending a fleet to Venice and an expedition into Jutland, yet those are the ultimate dangers which we risk in order to avoid the possibility of the first of them. We may avert them, say some Radicals, by steadily refusing to mingle in any Continental affair, as, in deed, it is possible to avoid trouble when the next house is on fire by calmly going to bed. That is non intervention in perfection ; but then there is risk in that course as well as cowardly neglect of duty. Fortunately there is not the smallest fear of Englishmen forgetting that dignity is at least an element in comfort, or holding that human beings are to them mere objects of scientific interest, or consenting to live as members of a family scorned by all the families with which it must per force asso ciate. Short of a policy of selfish isolation, of watching crime with a sensation of amusement, it is surely the interest of Great Britain that her friend ship should have some value, and her enmity some importance, that her vote for peace and freedom should weigh with armed despots, that her "opinion" should be something more than the shout of an edu cated mob. Yet that is the position to which we are reduced if the governing class insists that we have done all that friendship can ask for Denmark, because, forsooth ! we have suggested a conference — have recommended chloroform in order to make amputation easy. SATURDAY REVIEW.—Out of the multitude of plans for metropolitan railways already deposited, the materials can be found to piece out almost any general scheme which could possibly be determined on, and all that is needed now is to perform the task of selection on some intelligible and consistent prin ciple. To mention only a few of the more conspi cuous projects as they appear in the report of the Board of Trade, we find, first, an entire system of lines proposed by the Metropolitan Rail way Company. The short line from Pad dington to Farringdon-street has proved so successful that it is intended to extend it from both extremities, to the Minories and the Blackwell Rail way on the East, and to Kensington and the Vic toria Station on the South and West; and it is also proposed to make other subordinate lines to improve the connections with the main trunk railways, be sides a branch to introduce into the system St. John's Wood and the Hampstead Railway. A different project, having the same object of making the cir cuit of London, commences at the Kensington Sta tion, pierces through Chelsea and Pimlico to the Victoria terminus, thence goes direct to Westmin ster along the Thames Embankment, and on by Cannon-street and Tower-hill, where it forms a junction with the Blackwell arid North London lines, and throws out one arm to the North as far as the Metropolitan line, and another across the river, by the Thames tunnel or otherwise, to bring the Southern lines into the general circuit. Then there is yet another company with a group of lines connecting all the northern and southern railways on the east side of London, and also putting for ward its independent claim for the occupation of the hitherto useless tunnel. In addition to these inde pendent schemes, connecting system the Blackwell Railway Comp an y has its own pl an for its with the Great Northern and Midland Railwaythand extend ing it to th e districts of Tottenham and E d g ware. By a wider circuit the Great Eestern a gain is to be united with the suburban railways of the north of London and with the North-Western and Metropo litan systems. The unbuilt Embankment is to be fought for by various companies who compete for STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON. The report of the committee of this section of the North- Eastern Company states that no change can now take place in the authorised capital, excepting those alterations of loans into debenture stock provided for by the company's acts prior to the amalgamation. The calling up of the unpaid ordinary shares until the full amount of £25 each is paid will be continued. The reserve fund, with the addition of other sums belonging to the Stockton and Darlington sec tion, now amounts to X 65,240, and the committee advise that this amount be left for the present intact. The earnings of the amalgamated companies have enabled the committee to recommend that a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent per annum be declared for the past half year on the ordinary shares, leaving a balance of £2,879. HEREFORD, HAY, AND BRECON. The report of the directors states that the terms of a working agreement IT. ve been arranged between this com pany and the Kingston and Eardesley Railway Company. The directors have concurred in the introduction of a Bill permitting the Brecon and Merthyn Company to make working arrangements with this company. The engineer's report states that the works on the second section of the line were steadily progressing. The whole of the earthworks and bridges between Eardesley and Hay have been com pleted, and the works between the latter place and the junc tion with the Mid •Wales line are in a forward state. TALE OF NEATH, The report states that the receipts for the half year ended the 31st December, 1862, were £51,632, and the expenses £27,602, and for the half year ended the 31st December, 1863, the receipts were £62,565, and the expenses £28,473, showing an increase in the receipts compared with those of the:corresponding period of the preceding year of £10,933, and in expenses of only £B7l. The extension of the line from Neath to Swansea was opened for coal traffic on the 15th of July, for passenger traffic on the Ist of August, and for general traffic on the 24th of August last, and the re sults of the extension had fully realised the expectations entertained, having added considerably to the revenue, while, on the other hand, the working expenses had been but slightly augmented. The narrow gauge had been laid down between Swansea and a junction of the West Midland section of the Great Western Railway at Aberdare, and it was proposed to complete the narrow gauge to Merthyr, so as to connect the company's lines with the narrow gauge lines terminating these. The amount available for dividend was £14,273, which would admit of a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, carrying forward a balance of £790. The capital account to the 31st of December last showed that £1,410,418 had been received, leaving a balance of £34,337 unexpended. Tho revenue account for the half-year showed a total receipt of £62,565, and a total expenditure of £29,115, leaving a balance of £33,450. ULSTER. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Belfast, Mr. W. Coates in the chair. The report was read by the Secretary. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he would be glad to hear any remarks on it or to answer any questions respecting further information that might be desired. Mr. W. C. ALLEN seconded tho motion. Captain GRAY said he considered that the report and accounts were very satisfactory. He thought the new sta tion at Portadown was very creditable to the engineer; it was not only spacious, but complete in every respect. Ha felt certain that the shareholders were well satisfied to re ceive the handsome dividend of 5 per cent. He believed there was not another railway in Ireland paying so much. For the last five years the company had declared larger dividends than any other railway company in the country. In order to preserve their prosperous position they should have nothing further to do with extensions until after the company had a few years' rest. Those new schemes were were generally got up by solicitors and engineers, who no doubt gained by them ; but they generally proved most un profitable to the shareholders. Mr. THOMSON contended that the company should issue return tickets to third class passengers as well as to first and second class passengers, and he believed the result would be satisfactory. Resolutions were passed adopting the report and declaring a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the ordi nary shares, leas income-tax, payable on the 19th inst. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. LY'rHAM AND BLACKPOOL. The half-)early meeting of this company was held re cently at Lytham, Mr. J. C. Milne in the chair. The report, which was adopted, stated that the receipts on the capital account amounted to £65,200, and the expen diture to £65,558. The cost of land at the Blackpool end had exceeded the Parliamentary estimate by £lO,OOO. The re venue account Nhowed that the receipts for the sx months ending the Gth October last amounted to £2,074; the work ing expenses to £1,154, and the gross profit to £1,520, from which was deducted interest on about £20,500 borrowed, leaving a net balance of £1,113. The directors, finding the fares originally fixed were too low, had raised them. Ap plications had been made to Parliament for powers to make a railway from the company's line at Blackpool to Fleetwood. EDINBURGH AND BATIIGATE. The half-yearly meeting took place at Edinburgh on Friday, Mr. Hill in the chair. The traffic returns received from the lessees (Edinburgh and Glasgow) amounted to £6,215 for the half •year, showing a decrease of £5O, caused ty a decrease in the tonnage of minerals. The directors had taken steps to protect the interests of this company in the bill for the amalgamation of the Edinburgh and Glasgow and other railways. The usual dividend of 6s, per share was announced. The report was approved, and Mr. Hill was le-elected chairman. DUNABURG AND WITEPSK. The report of the directors states that Mr. Williams, the resident engineer, was despatched to Russia in the month of June las t for the purpose of laying out the line and making all necessary arrangements for commencing the works. A contract had been subsequently entered into for the pur chase of the whole land required for £34,000. Considerable progress had already been made in the works commencing at Dunaburg. The expenditure necessary for the works gene rally for the present year had been estimated at about £500,000. The board proposed to make a call of £5 per share early in the spring, which would pro . tice £130,000. Some of the proprietors having expressed a wish to pay up their shares in full, so as to have 6 per cent. on the amount during construction, the directors were prepared to give the opinion to the shareholders of paying up calls in advance on the shares to the extent of £BO per share ; and should the company's outlay require payments equal to the original estimate of £B3 per share, the directors had no doubt they would be able to provide the small balance of the issue of debentures. After the opening of the whole of the line the receipts, including the Government guarantee, would be distributed rateably over the shares, according to the amount paid up on each. The report of Mr. J. Hawkshaw, the engineer, stated that although the contract with Messrs. Peto and Betts for the construction of the railway was only signed on the 23d of June last, very satisfactory progt ebb Lad been made. Beginning at Dunaburg the earthwork and culverts for a length of 22 versts had been completed, and the rails had been laid for a dis tance of 18 vents, and at Dunaburg a junction had been effected with the Riga and Dunaburg Railway. The contrac tors had been supplied with working sections of the line from Dunaburg to Polotsk, a distance of 152 versts, and they had made arrangements for the vigorous prosecution of that portion of the works so soon as the winter terminated; in the meantime they were delivering materials along the line. The expenditure on capital account to December 31st amounted to £257,647, including £114,000 caution money deposited at Riga, leaving a balance of £27,935. DUTCH RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending January 31, 1864, amounted to £8,187, and for the corresponding period last year to £7,426, showing an increase of £761. The receipts since the commencement of the present book-year, May 1, 1863, including the above, amounted to £174,393, showing an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, of £1.1,625. The working expenses for the fort night amounted to £3,779, or 46.14 percent. of the receipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to £3,453, showing an increase of £326. The working expenses, from May 1, 1863, to Jan. 31, 1864, amounted to £67,991, or 38'85 per cent of the receipts. SOU TH YORKSHIRE. It appears that the directors of this company intend to propose at the next half .yearly meeting a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum upon the stock of the com pany. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The capital account of this company to the 31st of De cember, 1863, states that the receipts on stock and shares amount to £25,588,111, on debentures to £10,269,730, on on temporary loans to £250,000, on 31 per cent. debenture stock, to £310,830, and on 4 per cent. debenture stock to £1,875,137—t0ta1, £38,293,808, interest and dividend on the whole of which is charged to revenue. The total ex penditure on the main lines, land, works, &0., amounts to £27,379,270—f0r engines, carriages, waggons, &c., to £4,069,383—0n lands and building yielding rent, to £463,907—0n railways in which the company have an in terest £5,416,472 —and for the improvement of the per manent way £33B,o2l—making together £37,667,047, leaving a balance of £626,761, The expenditure on LONDON AND BLACKWALL. The report of the directors states that the total revenue for the half-year ending the 31st December last, with the balance of £669 from the previous account amounts to £66,851. and the expenditure to £22,617, leaving a net profit of £14,234; and, after payment of interest on deben tures, there is a balance of £35,750 available for dividend. This balance enables the directors to provide for dividend on the £250,055 41 preference stock, which will amount to £5,626, and to recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum upon the ordinary stock, leaving £943. THE CONDEMNED PIRATES. A communication was received on Saturday by the Sheriffs from Sir G. Grey, in answer to the ap plication that was made to the Home Secretary by those gentlemen, asking him to take steps to have the execution of the seven pirates c Irried out at one of the seaport towns instead of in the city of Lon don. The reply was to the (ff:et that Sir G. Grey did not deem it advisable to have the prisoners re moved from Newgate, and consequently the execu tion must take place in the usual course. It appears that some exertions are being made by Mr. Bvard, the solicitor who defended the prisoners, upon the instructions of the consuls of the nations to which they respectively belong to endeavour to save the lives of Marchelino and Los Santos, on the ground that there is no evidence to show that they were concerned in the murder of either the captain or any of the other persons who lost their lives, and that all that was proved against them was that they appeared to have concurred with what after wards took place. These two culprits put their names to the memorial, and an endeavour was made to induce the gentlemen who constituted the jury by which they were tried to sign it also. TtLis, however, was found to be a difficult task, as nearly the whole of them expressed their opinion that it was clear from the evidence that although the two prisoners Marchelino and Los Santos, might not have been actually present when the murders were committed, there was no doubt they took an active part in the mutiny, and that consequently they were as guilty as any of the others, and only one of the jury would sign the memorial. The general opinion among the authorities is that this memorial is not likely to be attended with any effect, and that the sentence will be carried out upon the whole of the culprits. Since the establishment of the Central Criminal Court not a single case has occurred of a capital conviction under the Admiralty jurisdiction of the court, and indeed most of the cases are tried at Liverpool. Before the Central Criminal Court was created, the culprits who were convicted of capital offences upon the high seas, were taken in a cart from Newgate to the Execution Dock, not far from the site of the old Thames Police•ofce, where they were hanged on the river shore, and at the com mencement of the present century the bodies of several pirate murderers might be seen hanging in chains at that spot. The culprits during the past week seem to have been awakened to a slight extent to their awful position. They have most of them relations in some or other of the Spanish islands, who are of course entirely ignorant of their fate; but upon their ex pressing a wish that they should b 3 communicated with and informed of their position, the Sheriffs afforiled them every facility for doing so, and letters have been written to the fathers, mothers, and other relatives of the culprits, to whom they wished them to be addressed, informing them of the position in which they are placed. The culprits have been con tinually visited during the week by two Roman Catholic priests, the Rev. Mr. Hussey, from Moor fields Chapel, and Father Louis, a Spanish priest, who converses with the prisoners in their own language. The Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary of the gaol of Newgate, has been spared the pain of interfering on the present occasion, as, independently of the pri soners being Roman Catholics, the whole of them, except Lyons and Vartas (or Wetter) as he 'was called at the trial, are quite ignorant of the English language, and these two spoke very little English. The culprits seem to have conducted themselves tolerably well since their conviction, but they are evi dently hardened, desperate ruffians ; and Lopez, or the " Cablan," as he was termed, only seems to be an noyed at not being allowed to s moke, and repeatedly asks, " Why they keep him so long?" and why the sentence is not carried out more quickly. They are all in separate cells, and are never left alone, so that they have not had the least opport unit y of com municating with each other since their conviction, as it is not all improbable, if they had an opportu nity they might have concocted some scheme of violence, to be carried out when the time for their execution arrived. It is expected that the scaffold will be altered so as to admit of there being two cross beams instead of one, and four of the culprits will be executed upon one of these beams and three upon the other. The precaution will also be taken of bringing every one of the prisoners separate:y to the press-room, as it is termed, to be pinioned, and the whole seven will not be together until they aro so secured as to render any attempt at violence alto gether impossible. The sheriffe have also given directions for other proceedings to be taken with a like object. As regards the prisoner Lyons, it appears that he is suffering so severely from rheu matism that he is not able to stand, and it is ex pected that it will be necessary to carry him to the place of execution. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment— Cold sprains it is an invaluable rem , edv ; ther.—Turn which way you will, go where you please, persons will bo found who have a ready word of praise for this Ointment. For chaps, chafes, calds, bruises, and cooling the blood, sc , othing accident or cold, it m a y be c;ufidently relied upon for for bad legs caused by effecting a sound and permanent cure. In cases of erysi the neryes,.adjust poles, swelled ankles, gout, or rheumatism, Hollows 's Ointment gives the greatest comfort, by reducing the in flammation, ing circulation, and expellin"? impurities. .11.118 Ointment stiould have a place in everyt'nursery. It will cure the long list of skin afflictions which originate in childhood, and gain strength with the child's growth• 1 , the privilege of IL‘Yi n g "A has b ought for and a still more auLlahi°us e 13 , g : in --1. r i a viarduct in the ward a plan for cart:Ting ,a,"123.t-.3 h. stations and ap• stream of the river itself, with a railway . above or below 1 , proaches at all the bridb'es. ' A 1 Aso -roi n Eiensington to 11.!ailway is . designed to Pt.a-de- a rk-corner, Picot- Knightsbridge, thence to II s P d and a variety of tran ; ci .11ed Mid -Lob e dilly,Claaring-cross, and the ~ marl; aubordinateschemesof thea Yarts of the down over all the most t. 'orta.a p v . as a us cm. pa.n, h caetropolis. A yet more ambit which mnioaatio.n 5..... project to resupply the whole acco a C 0133 ,0 ET ,are DI London requirea by a double circa. ;aess of tae one for the convenience of the goodt flts4--- he co ., main lines, and the other as a substitt. ~f for t Ever nibus traffic in the interior of Lot. 'Ll°ln' o7e. suburb of great or little importance haLt , O, it of railNa) ~ line in embryo, to bring it into immediate leastle,, with the City, Tottenhatn and Edgwai • ,ii;to.p. raerstnith and Clapton, Walthamstow and i Surrey stead, and a score of other districts around 1 are all to be amply providtrd for; and the ve and side is to be linked- to the North by lines abo . rereat below the river, at we know not how many dd. ;ects, points. Besides the crowd of independent proti the every great line is pushing inwards either _„0 City or the West End. 'fix Greet Eastern,, L'or"e., some reason, is weary o!' its banishnient in b 00 d °ado , ditch ; and the Great Northern, the l‘lidla'rld'facs the North Western "are setting the,ir.. ri ii southward, and threatening to cony ert Uniel'od Cross and all the iintnediate neighbOurtions„ into a vast combination of terraival fr,tPto be' In spite of unmanageable levels, the Strand I%,er passed, and the new station on the eite of Hu h i d ford Market to be made available for the icbt, Northern system. But it is vain to atteraPt to e o . ,"': merate half the proposals which are made for tlf , demolition of London. As laid down upon theoF, they may be seen to reduce the habitable area metropolis by a very considerable percentae.;4 ads what is more important in the view in a ny l ive, regard the matter, they leave scarcely w i J of, whether short or long, above or beioW g r° to without some body of projectors who are realot undertake its constructiou. Whatever the „,,,, perfect system of railways for the metrop!is Le_ be found to be, the whole of it is assuredlY t'Ll.o somewhere among the schemes which f:ich been brought forward ; and the only to roe Parliament has to perform is to eliminate frei`'..ota, cable affe lines, and to leave a working plans before it the vast mass of useless or rkieb rd all the accommodation desired, with th e n d i t to mum injury to London and its inhabit:Otte. rl°f do this the committee must be under 0 6 c ° , 13 13 both some b one comprehensive principle in NOP' d, 0 4 11 be e uses shall concur, and this, it may be h ° r e bee n secured by the joint committee which 0 5 00 of proposed. It is perhaps fortunate that the r a oia projectors tb have exerted themselves so vige:°lltieoco systera si;vi.. mighte present session. A less alarming cro p °' ' 3c Va' liamentary have been allowed to slip through "e coh cr n_ebe net without much regard th theliodoal buti cof the unfortunate inhabitants 01 y to the raid is on so magnificent a scale as J a d t o awaken aibi the attention of the Legislature, 13 } irt y to leed to a much needed reforth, ti ot °I) the the principles of railway construction, b u t ill vhole machinery of private bill business. -------- - - COUNTRY MARKETS. ---..r----_ .....,_ YORK-- SATURDAY. tol' raret roll There was a limited show of wheat at be• 0. see - d and the sales were slow—former quotations 1 013 cleingli ' I I fable f or 00 made. A short supply of barley, with a re .e " p url at about last week's rates. An improved de''' 004 took place, at previous prices, Beans as before'.,co to 00' Wheat, red 37s to 40s Oats. •.. ........ !' s ' . , to 4 ...., y s White do 4os to 4ns Beans .......... , F , t o oi Bandy .2(3s to 32s Peas ....... .'"fionr, '' Malt, 588 to GOs per qr.; rye, 303 per Cir' ; to 31s per sack. Old white wheat, t 7.----4 s __ s ; new, 36s per qr ; grinding, t o o:: Maltiq, pd L' new white, 44s to 4Gs ; red, 40s to 425. 33s to ts• u 363. At,N4S'rsHAM—SA.TtrItDA.Y. er 3 60.; 26 2os to 24s ; beans, 34s to 375; Pe 4° ' NORWICH—SA:rvitDAI -00111°17r s2;ssretdo, 340265; There was a fair supply of wheat, and prices i o ; P io same as on this day se'nnight for best sil , w a so sorts in favour of the buyers. There was a la yroar the supply of barley, but at fully later atc s ' i 3 unaltered. .4N t , () „ 36 0 White wheat. 44s to 47s I Red wheat e at. •• • ''' .35s .- ~(34 Malting barley ...35s to'37s 1 Chevt.lier barleY'..,24,' °' Distilling d 0..... 298 to 30$ 1 Oats... ........ ,liiiller Flour, 27s 6d to --s Od per sack froni til°4's-I:ttoba'r'll; ---- LEICESTER—SAVOO. e t g' e New white new, 32s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 25s to 28s ; new oats, wheat, 42s to 465 ; red, stone. Old red, 39s to 41s per 36 ' stone. 13ar1sPola o.; 3 9 s to 4340Fsitire 276 to 295; cs '; ' old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 275 to 31s p et .----. 40 . NOTTINGHAM--SATOIDO• to i g t4O 0') White wheat, from 41s to 495; red whe 2 t„ 505; t :56's Barley— lt . ' ma mg 30s to 38s ; g,rinding, µ•2e2 ''' F old $ 21s to 238 per 24 ston s o Dion old, at 24s to 30 ' to 4 9 -,s er qr. • new -13c'' s 0d; new, 198 to 2%5• 13e'Ins 0 ver ' , , 34s to 365. Flour, tine, 34s to 388; seconds, 298 to 3-$. '0 el ;: DUBLIN—FRIDAY . . il g ral s t u The market was dull, and a ll sorts of fr il l d,itrui. . shade lower. Foreign wheat very slow) b P. 0 neglected. Flour and oatme al dull. cl. 13 Do., new a. d. s, d.l°o ° t° t) 0 to o Wheat, white 24 0t026 6 Oatmeal.'''' ' --- t o ' 0 °,. Do., red 2l 6t024 0 leari s •• ''' --- 0 to ' 0 00 Barley ... 1 0 to , o . s 0 11 6to 14 6 Rapesoe, • ur .. 14 0 to o Oats Do., black —oto 0 Indian cora. P ' Foreign Mail Packet Psw is• MAILS DUE. Feb' if, Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton.... "ofeb.:, 6, Brazil andVerds, bviaßl\riltairssheipliaecs;;:' . .. ''''''''''''' it Cape Cape of Good Hope, A,s'eenysion, an . d St. Ilhaeuilei'vtao.n..tepu: 0' (' G Th* ib in ra a lta r r l l n n d d i i a a ( ( B Ca o l ni cu b t a t y a ) ) ; e , n v a i n a g , s a e n u d t h b e : e n : t a e p n o r . e . , .v . ia . ' S . 0 . u . ... .. . Falkland Islands .... • ' 'Tel ). 1 0, ......... •• ......... , ~ e 1). ton." r . D • o ' y on, via _, _,illos.. • f o o. 0 0. .. .• • ' F eb , `-, an via d SCoeutlharapvtio'x::•j•llD..n.'l).....'e'r.,°: Malta, — via Marseilles ..........•.hp, p. Portugal.... ................. • . • ' ''. Feu,: 0. Egypt, and Aden, . ;i . a . ' Si:intl.:a n, via hlarseilles ..... ....po Newfoundland .................. I , li Oporto and Vigo ................... . ........ • ; .' .:f e '' U. S. and British N. Arneric.a. • , by Wit. Pr.ckitt,i;• . I ) , '''' B W ll . l, C iala . mi o fo f ars A n, i f va rl .a c a s d British ja.......ydeoirrak,.a.n.d. Tbyevrt.Cie.a':il2Alla°da.'ir'3ll6..e,l.l).l..e.s.....::::llll.'!;ls'9:: New n by U.S. Pac eaolc;tcear. 10' Colum Africa, Mexiee• .................................... 1 1 , I fob. pton ..... • fe,: 11, All c parts of West Indies, including Chili, x " ) • uSoEiweeriNesseeArAvircuariTan. -- ------ 4 4 ' No Holun complete without a: A c l l.4able. ; * o Of o ,l iv ____./ Itco perfect family machine.tedi ni t (11 Prospectusf u, No. 135, Regent-street, W.—[ADVT.] Dil l ' i' TA , oervoll' ot , [ADVERTISEMENT.]—COnsUnaptiOI3, all 10 , o oil liver, and stomach complaints, ia even' st'LgAr'„cripti°°.joit* gravated and accelerated by drugs of every L' e :,, 1: 0 " 10 ,1 l fl o l i n a p l a l c t f ;ri le e e f le croieencinutai,pplcoa tilcia,:, perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restOrs1:00,0001:).,,,00. Arabica Food, as proved by thousands Of ca„tirelo :DO been considered hopeless. We quote a feW.--Licijoi in c ;, of Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the ra c l ot t7 t tot abandoned all hopes of her recovery from fl'!oetervegs• pulmonary consumption, with fearful cougli,:0110 c4ieztli exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations,,,liod. A 17 300 P s emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thanu ,unioali,6:4olel healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.--isi. Lange , '-'',,, 0 1 " A, live r Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James IZODCri° t W O. 10 / , Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, lure, Ns, oio o, derangement, and partial deainess.--Cure, 14°' 10 c1t- e , IV , Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousne!;tv_ooo-0,..101, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous iel'oo, l'' 00 ' t ett 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Factich h ad re d „ ; 60!' of indigestion and torpidity of the liver , sil.„,lb, 4 0 v, o. /1. all medical reatment. In tins, lib, 2s 9d; . '„' .d 0., and oil Hs; 12ib, 228; 241 b, 40s. Barry du harry a,;;3,00; „lota' ftep;ent-strcet, London ; also Fortnum and i..cd 00 ------- grocers and chemists in every town of the 11 0 7 ___ ___________ Births. iiteisifi'li t'9 rrinees•:, .e, FEILDING•--On the 11th inst., a, 1 ~ / 6 Louisa fading, of a daughter. rr ocvt Oxford-te' ay HALL. —On the 11th inst., at. 16, /: of , 000• 1,0 park, the wife of Frederick Hall, Lq, paru,,,ite, WEBSTER,--011 the 10th inst., at Ilytle-l" viii . o o f lArebster, of a son. c o ot, ti le WYNDIIAM.—On the 12th inst., at Bce,i,.ter. Penruddocke Wyndhara, Esq., of a daubu Marriages. g 10 ' k ilt ' )t the On the 13th 10"i° 00, 0, DIJDGF.ON---11OLDSWORTI1.— Arent, Idoor ham, Captain J. J. Dudgeon, 22d Ret, ji., 110 44 J'` )/. vicar of i li d ue r o t e u r g o h f t the y o t l k a s t l e l i lt t e e . v . G 4 0 . ted , I' 4 l Y 4 - ftt 1 3°3r* the oily cigar the 9th ins., t _ poi , _ o re, islyv.:::e_rAldvAßDE. W. Miller, late of the Scots Gre.rfi! ' o f . 30 40 (laughter of the late E.. F. Warde, stl..i K J° Deaths. Afro , Go v, I , Joh n Bo` ond72:edth7e7.l2th inst., at Lover GuNN.—On the Bth inst., at Ediaharg ' Job ° Esq., II.N. ciaptoot ..svo 1 Wilson Hillhouse, Esq., aged SI. ~ oid Drottrx, lIILLuoVSE.—On the 13th inst., at St. Y 049:41 c : i .otr ect , HoooAnz.—On the 12th inst., at .sui'n,phavt-P..sti logo' Charles Lancelot Hoggart, BM' , u A o ar A. LOCI;•v100", g° JEssor.—On the 11th inst., at t ° °°l. field, Alfred Jessop, solicitor. at 001100.000 , 4. MIDIMETON.--.012 the 11th il let c ; 23 h ., ' Iticl i Wilmot Middleton, Esq. , age ~,etituill, 1 0 ' ItAwaos.—On the 11th inst., at 'Wu ---", Rawson, Esq., used 78. _,--- -- :-va. __---- - " D i pi{ r.' ' 40 _ ___-------- ,Alg A ~,,,. 1... - -- ----- dPY WL'l'''' 011 ice Ai. 6t Loudon : Przed and Trt,Ushe t ~..... cv, the Quo of No. 112, Strand, l'rinter, 7,::;,,, , 0 ~, strand, ,n. V ie rreGinCt OI I .5, 180 4. lay, FelirttarY , MI idleacX --Mon( , T 1 i kt, +CI P,